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receiver

1. An interconnect or network device that includes a detector and signal processing electronics.

2. A circuit that converts an optical or electrical media signal to a (possibly retimed) electrical serial logic signal.

3. The portion of a Link-Control-Facility dedicated to receiving an encoded bit stream, converting the stream into transmission characters, and decoding the characters using the rules specified by FC-0.

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